GOP Withdraws Film For Further Editing
A controversial campaign film titled Choice withdrawn for editing after Republican Barry Goldwater objected to its present form. NBC had planned broadcast. a five minute segment aired on KTTV in Hollywood.
22 Oct 1964
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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1964
Page
1
A controversial campaign film titled Choice withdrawn for editing after Republican Barry Goldwater objected to its present form. NBC had planned broadcast. a five minute segment aired on KTTV in Hollywood.
Archbishop Heenan denounces a rushed debate on world hunger nuclear war and family life as the council considers its modern world document Heenan warns the document will disappoint hopes and mocks the council if it breezes past key issues including birth control and the contraceptive pill Heenan suggests the tone and timing undermine the church at large
Jean-Paul Sartre, awarded the 1964 Nobel prize for literature, rejected the honor and its $52,500 tax free prize money. He stated in Paris he refused the prize and would reserve further explanation for the Swedish press. SwedISH sources confirmed a letter declining the prize money was sent two days earlier. The announcement followed Nobel prizes in medicine and peace awarded last week.
United Nations Secretary General Thant called for a nuclear conference including the United States Russia Britain France and Communist China. He also urged allowing Nikita Khrushchev to publicly speak about his ouster in Moscow and noted he knows Brezhnev and Kosygin.
Governor Hoff labeled Lt. Gov. Foote’s accusation of a $1000 to $2000 payoff for a rural letter carrier route in North Bennington as a pure smear. Hoff said the jobs involved are Democratic, not his, and he kept hands off such appointments. He promised further detail tomorrow and urged Vermont stay above such tactics.
The Bennington Fire Department called in the state Fire Marshal to determine the cause of a blaze at Vermont Restaurant on 105 North St. Smoke filled the building but firefighters confined the fire to the upstairs rear section over the kitchen. damage estimated at 2000 to 2500 dollars. Maria's shoe repair shop next door also suffered some damage. Edward King notified the alarm from the Putnam Square firebox while a waitress evacuated patrons. Mutual aid procedures were used as a Rural Fire Department truck stood by at a village firehouse. The restaurant had a prior nonserious fire about a year and a half ago.
Jack Garvin of suburban Cleveland Heights told police Monday his small truck was stolen from in front of his business establishment Protection Service Inc. in Cleveland. He reported the theft occurred while the vehicle was left unattended outside the premises. The incident is under investigation by local authorities.
Lt. Gov. Ralph A. Foote accused Gov. Philip Hoff of knowing about a $2000 payoff for a rural mail carrier route in North Bennington. Vince and Harris signed affidavits claiming Hoff was informed of the payoff, while Powers held the route since 1963. Hoff called the charges a smear campaign, and Foote warned of possible libel without solid proof.
President Johnson denounces Republican corruption and mudslinging as smearlash as he campaigns through St. Louis and Illinois. He notes voters drifting from the party amid Baker Estes Jenkins cases, travels to Hoover funeral in New York, then to Memphis, Chattanooga and Baltimore with a broader moral theme.
The edition details a community drive by the Inside Underwriters group venturing through the village for the UCS fund drive on page three. Editorials debate moral decay sparked by Goldwater on page four. Hoosick Falls plans an addition rather than renovation to meet space needs on page five. Manchester town representative emphasizes business sense on page five. Orren Pernel from the college receives a standing ovation on page six.
William G. Rowe, 40, of 234 Bradford St., Bennington, died in a crash on Vermont 9 in Woodford at about 4:30 a.m. He was ejected from a 1960 Rambler station wagon that left the road, struck an embankment, and rolled onto its roof. State police report the 104th highway fatality in Vermont for 1964. The body was taken to Mahar and Son Funeral Home.
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